The Center for Global Culture and Communication 

(An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication)

and

The Center for Transcultural Studies

(An independent intellectual network with institutional roots in Chicago)

Jointly present 

 Questioning the Present: An Online Public Forum (Session 25) on

Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

(Yale University of Press, 2023).   

Samuel Moyn (Law and History, Yale University)

Respondents

John Brenkman (Comparative Literature and English, CUNY Graduate Center & Baruch College, Emeritus)

Helena Rosanblatt Dhar (History, French, and Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center)

Stephen Sawyer (History, American University of Paris)

ON ZOOM

Friday, April 17, 2026

10 a.m. CST

Convened by Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University)